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JOHN ARTHUR CAMPBELL
Vol. 3, p. 1131

In the City of Tulsa can be found many of the veterans of the oil
industry, and whose experience covers every oil district in America,
if not in the entire world. One of the local oil operators and
producers who has been identified with practically every phase of the
business and in various states is John Arthur Campbell, who has had
his office in Tulsa since June, 1913, and is an extensive independent
operator.

John Arthur Campbell was born in Washington County, Ohio, July 16,
1871, the third of five living children of John P. and Jane Elizabeth
(THOMPSON) Campbell. His father was born in Connecticut and died at
the age of sixty-six, and his mother in Ohio and died at the age of
sixty-four. John P. Campbell was engaged in the general merchandise
business at Cowrun in Washington County, Ohio, and later in the same
business in Marietta, Ohio, and was one of the first to take up the
development of the oil districts of Ohio. In early life he had voted
with the wig party and subsequently was a republican.

John A. Campbell received his education from the public schools. His
first work when quite young, about thirteen years of age, was as a
farmer and farm hand. He worked in tobacco fields, and was also a
tobacco stripper in Ohio up to the age of nineteen. Since that time
his activities have all been centered about the oil industry. He
began as a teamster, later sharpened oil well tools and then had some
experience in the drilling of wells. He helped put down some of the
wells in Ohio, and subsequently began as an oil well contractor,
following which he engaged in the oil business himself as an
independent operator. His experience covers the different oil
districts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and from those states he
came to Tulsa.

Mr. Campbell is a republican in politics. On September 23, 1896, he
married Miss Clara L. RAKE, who was born in Washington County, Ohio.
They have two children, Glen and Grace C.

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